On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:06, Eric Chevalier wrote: > >Ok, I'm tired of banging my head against this one. I know there must be > >a simple perl, sed or tr solution, but I can't seem to find it. I'm > >cleaning up some extracted data and the one annoying thing I have left > >is a single quote followed by a capital letter, which I want to change > >to lowercase like so: > > > >Can'T --> Can't > >Santa'S --> Santa's > > > >and so on.
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why not a simple tr command: > > tr [A-Z] [a-z] <infile >outfile > > It seems to work just fine for me; caps are replaced by their lower-case > equivalent, and everything else is left untouched. Because I only want the conversion to lowercase if the letter is preceded by a single quote. tr would replace *all* upper-case characters, so: Can'T --> can't > Eric Nice name. ;-) -Eric -- Eric Sisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Library Applications Specialist Westminster Public Library Westminster, CO USA Linux - Don't fear the Penguin. Want to know what we use Linux for? Visit http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
